The Center on Youth Voice, Youth Choice (CYVYC) is a resource center for youth with intellectual and/or development disabilities (I/DD). CYVYC provides technical assistance to state teams from across the US to promote alternatives to guardianship, so that fewer youth with I/DD have legal guardians. Each state team aims to…

Disability pride month is a celebration of disability identity, history, resilience, and joy. Boston held the first Disability Pride Day and parade in 1990, following the legislation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Learn about disability justice this month The Disability Justice Collective, a group of queer, disabled, women of color, initially envisioned and conceived the…

On June 14–16, several ICI and SGISD staff attended and presented at the National Association for People Supporting Employment First (APSE) Conference in Denver, CO. The theme of this year’s conference was Moving Mountains Together. Alberto Migliore, Jennifer Sulewski, and Brit Miles from ICI’s ThinkWork and Micah Fleisig from Jewish…

This year, 25 Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) fellows graduated from the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) and Boston Children’s Hospital LEND program. LEND fellows are self-advocates, family members of individuals with disabilities, and health and education professionals. Fellows from 12 disciplines engaged in lessons around interdisciplinary…

Apprenticeship opportunities are an important part of youth transition to adulthood and the workforce. The Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) Rural Youth Apprenticeship Development (RYAD) Project promotes the development and advancement of state and American Indian vocational rehabilitation (VR) apprenticeships programs for youth with disabilities ages 16–24 in underserved rural…

Our Barbara Wilensky Gopen Memorial Fellowship and Allen C. Crocker Family Fellowship are part-time fellowship programs. Fellows work independently for 20 hours per week on projects of their choice and attend trainings and events to learn about disability advocacy, services, and policy. Both fellowships begin in mid-August 2022 and end…

As we celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer + (LGBTQ+) Pride Month in June 2022, we must acknowledge disabled LGBTQ+ advocates who have fought and are still fighting for justice at the intersections of disability and LGBTQ+ identities.

Join us in congratulating Dr. Heike Boeltzig-Brown for having been nominated and accepted to the US-Japan Council (USJC) as a Council Leader! Only highly accomplished professionals with significant experience in fulfilling the USJC’s mission are nominated for the honorable Council Leader membership. The USJC is dedicated to strengthening US-Japan relations…

The Professional Fellows Program on Inclusive Civic Engagement is a premier professional program funded by the US Department of State for emerging leaders in Africa to exchange and implement best practices for inclusive civic engagement. Approximately 19 disability rights professionals (Fellows) from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ethiopia will identify a…